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> All the marvels of the last 100 years are because of productive people How so? Those people were paid, why should they be also be thanked on top of what they
by jokoon 6y ago
> All the marvels of the last 100 years are because of productive people
How so? Those people were paid, why should they be also be thanked on top of what they gained?
The world is unfair by definition.
Why should things not be given for free? That's the premise of the basic income you agreed on.
I never really encouraged for communism either, and never said it would be fair.
- zarkov99 6y ago> Those people were paid, why should they be also be thanked on top of what they gained? Because there isn't enough money in the history of the world to compensate say the inventors of vaccines. Or electricity. Or the computer. Or the combustion engine. There is no problem with giving things for free, as long as the giving is voluntary. There is an enormous problem with taking things by force from a group so you can give them to another.
- jokoon 6y agoThose inventors are a fraction of people we would call productive. Here is a presentation I find insightful on motivation and creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc > There is an enormous problem with taking things by force from a group so you can give them to another. Are you talking about taxes? Budgets are voted and depend on an elected government. Laws are a form of social contract, I guess. Money is just a medium of exchange, a way to "count sheeps" and reduce waste. In my view it's its only true function. No man is an island. People are free to go elsewhere and create their own country. Now it's possible to advocate for a form of anarchism (there are many, I guess). Bertrand Russel has criticized anarchism.